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==Notes==

When Margarete comes back in her room, she feels like something is not right and is frightened. She sings ''Thule'', a ballad written by Goethe in 1774.

It is metnioned that Margarete's room is very neat. This is because of her mother. She bascially has to keep the house. She knows what is expected of her so she does it without compliant. She strived to do her best and as long as she has "a lifelong striving towards greater and greater realms of knowledge, action and feeling; and those who stay true to this call, even when they stumble into excesses and error will not go unrewarded by God"(Champagne).

The floors were scattered with sand after cleaning:'Scatter the sand on the floor, housewifely, in a pattern?" (579, 2501)

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What do i want? Why is my heart so torn?

Poor Faust, I hardly know you anymore."(579, 2512-2515).

He doesn't understand why he is lusting for Margarete so much. Before, Faust had no real emotion in his life and now he is feeling so much. He realizes that he is not the same man he used to be.

He doesn't understand why he is lusting for Margarete so much. Before, Faust had no real emotion in his life and now he is feeling so much. He realizes that he is not the same man he used to be. Faust has an inner division:" Faust cannot interact in any unified or integrated fashion with the world outside himself. His inner division, his alienation from himself coincides with an alienation from others as well" (Van Der Laan). Faust has difficulty getting in touch with his feminine side:"Faust sets before us the central problem of Faust's soul, his difficulties in relating to the feminine side of his being" (Bohm). Masculinity and Femininity are two opposites, but they do come together: "This union of Masculine and Feminine, transcending gender in a redemptive return to a primal unity" (Barbler).

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 ==Notes==
 When Margarete comes back in her room, she feels like something is not right and is frightened.  She sings ''Thule'', a ballad written by Goethe in 1774.
+It is metnioned that Margarete's room is very neat.  This is because of her mother.  She bascially has to keep the house.  She knows what is expected of her so she does it without compliant.  She strived to do her best and as long as she has "a lifelong striving towards greater and greater realms of knowledge, action and feeling; and those who stay true to this call, even when they stumble into excesses and error will not go unrewarded by God"(Champagne).
 The floors were scattered with sand after cleaning:'Scatter the sand on the floor, housewifely, in a pattern?" (579, 2501)
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 What do i want? Why is my heart so torn?
 Poor Faust, I hardly know you anymore."(579, 2512-2515).
-He doesn't understand why he is lusting for Margarete so much.  Before, Faust had no real emotion in his life and now he is feeling so much.  He realizes that he is not the same man he used to be.
+He doesn't understand why he is lusting for Margarete so much.  Before, Faust had no real emotion in his life and now he is feeling so much.  He realizes that he is not the same man he used to be.  Faust has an inner division:" Faust cannot interact in any unified or integrated fashion with the world outside himself.  His inner division, his alienation from himself coincides with an alienation from others as well" (Van Der Laan).  Faust has difficulty getting in touch with his feminine side:"Faust sets before us the central problem of Faust's soul, his difficulties in relating to the feminine side of his being" (Bohm).  Masculinity and Femininity are two opposites, but they do come together: "This union of Masculine and Feminine, transcending gender in a redemptive return to a primal unity" (Barbler).
 ==Study Questions==